Resurrection In Our True Being

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Become what you are (Pindar)

The Resurrection is no other thing than the re-constitution of our nature in its original form (St.Gregory of Nyssa, On the Soul and the Resurrection) [2]

Assuming that this original form is the non-fallen Divine Soul of Humanity, body of the Messiah, which dwells beyond the state of innocence enjoyed by First Adam in Eden.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ (Love, Life, Light), he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come (2 Corinthians 5:17) 

For in Him we live, move and have our being (Acts 17:28)

So the re-constitution is an even more perfect state than the Edenic innocence from which the sparks of Humanity´s Soul fell, since the New Creation contains experience and transcendence of death.

The inner side of Genesis 2 implies we exist in a fallen Creation since the day the "living soul" called Adam was put to sleep and split up into a spiritual maculine part (higher mind) and a feminine lower one (emotional mind), which got trapped inside the infamous Serpent, doomed to miss the mark and venture to experience death by eating from the Tree of perfection/completeness (Tob) and incompleteness (Ra). 

The Zohar states Adam ate from the Tree of Knowledge before the appointed time. Yet, had he any other option?

For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope (Romans 8:20)

Genesis 1:2, Isaiah 45:18 and other passages strongly suggest this was an outcome of a previous heavenly Fall, and it actually made possible a reconciliation of the old Fallen Creation  by means of Divine Grace in the New Creation. 

The New Humanity is based on the manifestation of the personal attributes of the Infinite Being´s Emanation/Name, i.e YHWH (IAUA), code for timeless Love, Life, Light and Peace, as they came to be incarnated in Jesus Christ/Yahushua, which means IAUA is Salvation, often mistaken with the historic person Yeshua/Jesus that contained the Name.

The Divine Essence is also deemed as Head of a cosmic Body of expression or Collective Personality (Colossians 1:19-20).

Now it only remains to manifest such collective Body fully, crucifying the ego in matter and resurrecting from this fallen creation, in all those who receive Life.

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ [Life, Light, Love] lives in me (Galatians 2:20)

This is the reason why Christ should never be seen as an external person that resurrects us if we worship  him, but rather as one´s true Self/Essence.

...God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory (Colossians 1: 26-27)

In other words, the remaning Soul sparks of the New Creation await in Light realms, ready to guide their earthly counterparts, allowing fallen creation to be brought back to its unfallen perfection, as the light of spirit shining on water to make it evaporate, sublimate.

These emanated seeds were known as "angelic counterparts" or even "twin flames", as those curious "double flames" that were kindled on the Apostles´heads during Pentecost (Acts 2). 

Without our true Higher Self or Divine Soul, no one would live or be individually saved:

Blessed is the man whose face mirrors the countenance of the Man from above (Zohar)

See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their Angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven (Matthew 18:10).

So the Divine Soul looks not only towards our realm, but contemplates the Spirit of the Father, and without this mediation the higher Light would never reach this physical dimension, since no darkness can exist in the deeper planes.

Hence St.Gregeory went on saying that eventually, after the apokatastasis or reconstitution of all things, there will remain nothing but goodness.

And as prophet Isaiah stated, in the New Earth, the former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind (Isaiah 65:17).

This seems to imply all was reconciled before it took place, and we may be living a sort of Flashforward. More strange, impossible.

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[2] Patristic texts:
 http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2915.htm

Passion of Consciousness and Conscience

The passion of genuine inner Christianity is far removed from self-mortifications and images of blood covered versions of Jesus, which that reflect how poorly the Gospel is understood and how much darkness affects orphans carnal minds.

True passion is related to the "gnawing of Conscience", clearly reflected on what Yeshua/Jesus says during his prayer at Gethsemane:

My Father, if you can not pass this cup without me drinking it, your will be done (Luke 22:42)

The apostles were well aware of the importance of this state, which should not be confused with grief, indignation or affliction, but with the ability to carry the pain of the world on the back:

My conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers... (Romans 9: 2-3 ESV).

Conscience can be seen as a function of the deeper Soul/Self, a harmony of peaceful Heart and divine Reason, the only action  that can tell us what we must be and do in each moment:

When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.  They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them (Romans 2:14).

Conscience also kindles the fire that purifies the lower personal soul or nephesh, which can only be saved if its darkness, inherited from the Fall, is completely fertilized and recycled, suffering an ego death, like a catterpillar.

This transformative process occurs only insofar as the "consciousness" or non-reactive view of our perceptions, imperfections, thoughts, and states of mind increase.

In this way consciousness works on the level of personality and creates the conditions for Conscience to emerge from our subconscious essence, facilitating forgiveness to face the negativity of others or repentance for offending others (relatives, friends...), as well as equanimity in the face of difficult challenges that require all of our courage and excellence –virtues that cannot come from the personality.

To those who are victorious [after the inner Armageddon] I will give them to eat from the Tree of Life (Revelation 2: 7)

But this conscience cannot expand unless one is aware of what is really happening and what is our role in reality.

The act of pure Conscience includes the salvific action of divine Grace:

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ (1 Peter 3:21 ESV)
 
Good conscience implies feeling fully grateful for being alive and having the opportunity to participate in the Divine Plan of the Higher Soul, whose mission is to mediate, bringing the Spirit to Matter, the Waters below.

Gratitude also involves recognizing and receiving the profound Teachings that were bequeathed to us by the Nazarene Essenes, in spite of being attacked by the anti-Christ spirit of the official religion.

Conscience is the key to emotional healing, the repair (tikun) of the virtues whose rupture caused the Fall of Adam (Soul of Humanity):

With conscience (da'at) the chambers are filled with all precious and desirable goods (Proverbs 24: 4)

These chambers or jederym are none other than the virtues or midot of the Heart, since the Hebrew word Jeder (JDR) is the cabalistic acronym for Mercy/Jesed, Justice/Din, Compassion/Rajamim.

The relation of our mind to these three emotional virtues is known as the lower Conscience (Da'at Tachton), which leads to the higher Conscience (Da'at Elyon), where Understanding and Wisdom unite in the Ineffable level of Will or Supreme Love.

Thus, we must recognize that Conscience depends on the divine Spirit that dwells in the Soul seed/spark given to those who connect with the Heart and are begotten from above:

You have received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry: Abba, Father! The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit, that we are children of God (Romans 8: 15-16)

One can only be said and become the Son of God who possesses Conscience –G.I.Gurdjieff, All and Everything, First Series.

Conscience is therefore the fruit of a correct attitude and vision. Of what benefit would be to live if our mind is not alert enough to perceive the subtle details of life that can awaken this deeper "Conscience", connecting us to the requirements of our Divine Soul, which bears the will of the Supreme Father?

Asking for clarity is always legitimate, but it is up to us to cultivate the mental attention that gives us the true "common sense", where Life takes on its full meaning.

Who wants to keep being a donkey?

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 An ox knows its owner, and a donkey its master´s manger. But Israel does not know, my people do not understand [has no Da´at, understanding conscience] (Isaiah 1:3).

Certainly, it´s been a long time since external Israel–not the spiritual one– was repudiated after flirting with idolatrous beliefs, failing to unite intuitive Wisdom (Jokma) with the Understanding (Binah) of the details. And this tragedy is basically the same that destroyed a superficial Christianity, even in some of its Judaic perspectives, which still interpret Scripture only in a historic-carnal way, bypassing the allegoric view of the Soul, which must be born in the lower kigdoms of the body (mineral, vegetable and animal) and overcome their influence. A Way represented by the episodes of Yeshua/Jesus.

Thus, in ancient symbolism, the ox and donkey refer to "physical inertia" and "selfish stubborness", negative cosmic forces –astral energies– that work through the physical body, keeping humans immersed into a state of ignorance, and therefore idolatry towards lower passions, being pride, gluttony and lust of the senses the main ones.

Thou shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together (Deuteronomy 22:10)

These negative forces seem thrown against those who can wake up or those who already have engendered a spiritual Soul, being Sons of God  by right and not by  the adoption of faith which is offered in Romans 8:15, which is just a first step.

It was always said that the Messiah/Christ/Anointed One –which represents the mature Soul– would come riding a donkey, which in Egyptian mythology is the evil god Seth that kills and dismembers Osiris, a fallen god, as Prometheus, figures which are mistakenly associated with the judeochristian Messiah, when in reality those are still as fallen as first Adam. Not even Horus, which avenges his father´s death, is able to get rid of Seth every year. And this is because those myths lack pieces of the mysteric puzzle.

It is then time to explain some mysteries that will help us understand the thread of this Pesaj/Holy Week 2017.

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass (Zechariah 9:9 RSV) 

The Gospel writers clearly had in mind this passage when they draw the picture of Jesus the Christ/ Yeshua ha Mashiaj on a donkey (John 12:13/Matthew 21:5).

And they knew the Master was way ahead from the arts of Baalam, the sorcerer of evil tongue who hit his donkey (body), when an Angel of God made it devite from the road, teaching him a lesson, since taming Nature is not a question of brute force (see Numbers 22:21-39).

The Zohar reveals that the King refers to the Solar Mind that illumines the emotional Moon of the heart.

So it should not be surprising that Jesus Christ enters Yirushalaim, which symbolizes the City of Peace (Shalom)–even though in physical reality it is not.

The Full Moon in the Heart is therefore the true "engendering" of the Messiah within each sincere heart, the prelude of his ulterior "birth", hinted at 2 Peter 2:19.

The Zohar goes further to point that the white donkey refers to the transformation of negative energy called Lilith, the demoness associated to the Serpent and who in Hebrew myths makes humans lose their "vital seed", whether by means of sexual misconduct or emotional agitation.

The non-transformed Serpent is the "desire to receive without measure", which must be turned into the "desire to receive in order to share", overcoming thus all egoism. He who lets himself be instructed, understands and shares, carrying out an act of conscious love for others.

So in the Gospel passage we have a Messiah that has transmutted his pasional energies, being able to dwell in the Peace of the Heart.

And that is not achived through self-mortifications, as it is suggested by carnal mentalities. Go raise above the astral energies only requires Knowledge and Understanding of what we are and must be, letting Divine Soul Conscience be actualized in oneself, leading us out of Egypt, the ego´s bondage, which is precisely the theme of the Holy Week.

More details soon.  

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[1] On Psychological Warfare:

http://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/379351/jewish/Psychological-Warfare.htm